Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine IrelandPicturesque but poor, abject yet sublime in its Gothic melancholy, the Ireland perceived by British visitors during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not fit their ideas of progress, propriety, and Protestantism. The rituals of Irish Catholicism, the lamentations of funeral wakes, the Irish language they could not comprehend, even the landscapes were all strange to tourists from England, Wales, and Scotland. Overlooking the acute despair in England’s own industrial cities, these travelers opined in their writings that the poverty, bog lands, and ill-thatched houses of rural Ireland indicated moral failures of the Irish character. |
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... Protestants, encountered the near ubiquity of Roman Catholicism, the same suspect religion the tourists found in foreign countries such as France and Italy. Ireland was therefore an anomaly to the British visi- tor: not quite a foreign ...
... Protestants, encountered the near ubiquity of Roman Catholicism, the same suspect religion the tourists found in foreign countries such as France and Italy. Ireland was therefore an anomaly to the British visi- tor: not quite a foreign ...
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... Protestants trying to make sense of a rebellious land and its “wylde” Roman Catholic inhabitants. For the Qrst half of the ... Protestant Ascendancy, that Irish tourism began to emerge. The relative stability and prosper- ity that ...
... Protestants trying to make sense of a rebellious land and its “wylde” Roman Catholic inhabitants. For the Qrst half of the ... Protestant Ascendancy, that Irish tourism began to emerge. The relative stability and prosper- ity that ...
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... Protestant British writers. Although usu- ally better informed, their judgments on the Irish landscape and peo- ple were not appreciably different from those of writers born in Great Britain. Indeed, reading through the travel accounts ...
... Protestant British writers. Although usu- ally better informed, their judgments on the Irish landscape and peo- ple were not appreciably different from those of writers born in Great Britain. Indeed, reading through the travel accounts ...
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... Protestant visitors into direct contact with the Roman Catholic prac- tices of the peasantry. Chapter 3 shows how the tourist's gaze, when guided by the principles of the picturesque, enabled travel writers to partially aestheticize and ...
... Protestant visitors into direct contact with the Roman Catholic prac- tices of the peasantry. Chapter 3 shows how the tourist's gaze, when guided by the principles of the picturesque, enabled travel writers to partially aestheticize and ...
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... Protestants and Catholics seeing ruined churches and castles in different contexts. While antiquarianism often involved measuring, recording, and sketching sites and artifacts, in Ire- land it also involved questions of national origins ...
... Protestants and Catholics seeing ruined churches and castles in different contexts. While antiquarianism often involved measuring, recording, and sketching sites and artifacts, in Ire- land it also involved questions of national origins ...
Contents
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3 Putting Paddy in the Picture | 51 |
4 British Tourists and Irish Stereotypes | 63 |
5 Tourism and the Semeiotics of Irish Poverty | 80 |
6 Irish Povety and the Irish Character | 105 |
7 Misreading the Agricultural Landscape | 127 |
8 Discovering the Moral Landscape | 147 |
9 Landscape Tourism and the Imperial Imagination in Connemara | 162 |
Conclusion | 195 |
Notes | 201 |
Bibliography | 233 |
Index | 257 |
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